"quotes": Regular talking
italics: thoughts
bolded italics: Telepathic speaking
Bolded: Telepathic suggestion
Nendou and Kaidou always play this game called Best In Me. (Obviously a ripoff Destiny) It's like a first person shooter/RPG game that puts you in the position of a hero trying to save the Earth from vicious aliens after a power concealed in a weird, hovering spherical dodecahedron, and the heroes that you play as. Nendou doesn't seem too interested in it… after all, he does have those VR games. But Kaidou… man, that game is basically the reason why he still has chuunibyou. Why does Nendou play with that kid? Well, I'm pretty sure that Nendou doesn't know why either.
"Yo! Nendou, look! I just got a new gun! It's so cool!", Kaido screeched into his 1000 yen mic. "It's got like four laser blasters coming out of the front! I don't understand what the hell the name means, but it's still so cool! Well, ya know, only the best for the Infamous Jet Black Wings."
"Uh… can I see it?", Nendou said slightly lazily into his own mic, which was probably more expensive than his console.
"Yeah, uh, Nendou… I just... told you to look. Of course you can. But maybe… IS THE DARK REUNION TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR BODY? THEN WE MUST FIGHT! FOR THE BODY OF NENDOUUUUUU!"
Yes, Kaido's chuunibyou seems to get worse whenever he plays this game. It should really be confiscated for his own good. Still very perplexed, Nendou said into his mic, "Runt, how do I 'look' at you?"
"What do you mean, you're already looking at me!" screamed Kaidou in utter confusion.
Obviously not understanding what Kaidou said in the first place, Nendou said, "No I'm not. That's not you. That guy's not a runt like you are. I can recognize people at least."
"Says the person who can't even recognize their father-in-law when he's wearing a clown nose? Really? And I'm not a runt! That IS me you're looking at.", Kaidou shot back.
"What do you mean? I don't remember that, I just remember some creepy guy with a clown nose turning into my father in law." Nendou said, obviously unfazed by the situation because of his utter stupidity.
Fed up with Nendou's usual antics, Kaido said, "Ok, about how to look… uh, move your right joystick until the guy in the silver armor on your screen is EXACTLY in the center of your scree-"
"Which way do I move it?"
"Just move it until the guy with the silver armor is exactly in the center."
3 minutes later...
"Ohhhhhh! you move it that way!"
It was the first time in 4 years that Nendou managed to figure something out by himself. Done with his immeasurably difficult task, in a shining example of pure bravery, Nendou requested another challenge and said, "Alright runt, what next?"
"Alright, now press on the right joystick until a menu pops up."
*crack*
*crunch*
*clink clink clink*
Kaidou had known Nendou for long enough to already know exactly what had happened, but he still asked, "Hey Nendou, what happened?" Nendou, now a bit annoyed, said, "My controller shattered. It's your fault, you told me to press on the right joystick until a menu popped up. A menu never popped up! I didn't even get to order my favorite snack!"
It was at this moment that every window in a 200 KM radius of Saiki Kusuo's house shattered.
Good grief, what was that?, Saiki thought as he woke up from his dreamless sleep, wondering what the large noise he heard was. He then saw his windows; rather the nonexistence of them. His head then started filling up with others' thoughts, even with his germanium ring on. Oh crap. What could have happened this time? Saiki still had his limiters on, that was good, but his head was still agonizingly full of others' thoughts. Saiki, suspecting the problem was with his limiters, took them off. Nothing happened. He put them back on. Nothing happened. His head was still full of other people's thoughts, and he could barely control his strength. Great. Just great. So I can't even reverse any of this, because I would just bring everything back in time 7 years, and because I might accidentally kill someone. Great. Saiki turned on the TV to see if anybody had reported a burglary or something because of his windows all shattering. It was way worse than he had thought. "BREAKING NEWS. All of the windows in Hidariwakibara-cho, and many in 4 neighboring towns have seemingly simultaneously shattered. Could this be the work of an extremely large organized group of burglars? Could it be the first of many terrorist attacks? Or is it a psychic? Stay tuned to find out." Psychic? What… that HAS to be a joke. Good grief, how do I take care of this? While Saiki was thinking about how to take care of his problem, Saiki's TV changed to a different channel. Well, it wasn't really a channel. The TV said, "Hi Kusuo. Seems you've got a real problem on your hands don't you." It's my annoying brother. "Oh, don't say that, I'm not THAT annoying am I? I'm not the one that caused this." What do you mean? "You see, those limiters on your head rely on your psychic power to charge its batteries. And like any other battery, they wear out. It seems like that is exactly what has happened." Yeah, so can I have replacement batteries? "But you see, because your psychic power gets stronger as you get older, those batteries will wear out much more quickly. You can't have these kinds of disasters happen all the time, right? So I'm taking the time to design brand new batteries that will hopefully last 20 years or more." Yes, that's great, but can I have replacement batteries? "No." Why not? "Because it's funny watching you struggle like this, all because of me. Well, bye!" -Wait, the batteries! The TV turned off. Damn it. This can't get any worse. It did.
Hey guys! The author here! Please leave comments on how to improve my writing, as it really helps, and yes, this will get another episode very soon. The OC hasn't been introduced formally yet, but they are in this chapter. Well, you can guess.
